- In this chapter, we're gonna focus on something…known as conditional text here in FrameMaker.…It's a very powerful feature that you can use…for creating multiple versions…of the exact same document.…For example, if you've ever seen…the teacher's version of a textbook,…they'll often contain things like margin notes,…or answer keys that you don't see in the student version.…Or you could also use conditional text…to create multiple versions of a catalog…with different regional pricing.…In our case, we're gonna continue to work…with our Mission Furniture catalog,…and we're gonna use conditional text…to create separate U.S. and Canadian versions.…

So go ahead and open up this file,…if you have the exercise files.…And we're gonna start by creating the tags…that we can then apply to the content in our catalog.…I'll start by scrolling down to the first page,…where we see module one, a piano bench.…Now in this case our piano bench…is made of black walnut,…as we can see here at the end of the first line.…But let's say that's only if it's the U.S. version.…

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6/29/2016

Build elegant and easy-to-read long-form documents with Adobe's popular FrameMaker software. Join Garrick Chow as he explores the features, tools, and techniques you need to become more proficient with FrameMaker 2015. Learn how to add and format text, customize page layouts, assign master pages, and work with colors and character formats. Then discover how to use graphics in your layouts, format tables, use footnotes and cross-references, combine documents into longer books, and generate tables of contents and indexes. Garrick also shows how to add interactive features such as hyperlinks and export FrameMaker layouts to PDF and EPUB.